Hi folks, The current version of our server infrastructure for capabilities has a misfeature in it, where 500 responses have a stray colon in them. Capabilities are meant to be HTTP-compliant, but this stray colon is not. However, that incompatibility is required to maintain compatibility with 1.20.17 and earlier viewers (and their derivatives).
Maintaining this situation is a pain, because coercing standards-based infrastructure (like Apache) to do the wrong thing is a major pain. We eventually would like to eliminate this aberration from our infrastructure, but that would mean that older viewers would stop working. We'll give you plenty of warning before actually changing this infrastructure, but we figured it's best to get the technical information out now so that this will hopefully be a moot point by the time we announce a timeline. We're asking that everyone who has a viewer based on 1.20.17 and older to either upgrade to a newer base revision of the viewer (e.g. 1.21 or later) or apply a fix as described here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Deprecated_Protocol_Features#Deprecated_protocol_feature:__stray_colon_in_HTTP_500_responses_.28viewers_1.20.17_and_earlier.29 ...with patches attached here: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12248 Thanks! Rob _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
